Yanomami children are dying at a disproportionate rate from preventable diseases, like malaria and malnutrition. At least 570 Yanomami children have died from preventable causes since 2018, Brazil ...

At least 570 Indigenous Yanomami infants have died over the past four years from treatable diseases such as diarrhea and malaria, an average of three every week, highlighting the ongoing plight of ...

Many Yanomami, the largest Indigenous tribe in the Amazon, have been contaminated with mercury from illegal gold mining; 84% of 300 tested had a level of exposure that can lead to health problems.

The alerts of illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land have zeroed for the first time since 2020, according to satellite monitoring by the Brazilian Federal Police.

BRASILIA, March 21 (Reuters) - Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this ...

Shaman Davi Kopenawa, chief of the Yanomami people who live on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation, fears a pending Supreme Court decision on native land claims could worsen an onslaught of ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and this month the federal government declared ...

The bacteria in our guts impact nearly everything in our lives, from sleep to disease to diet. Scientists are working with an Amazon tribe to find out how.

The Yanomami live as hunter-gatherers and gardeners in a remote rainforest region of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. Their diet is low in fat and salt and high in fruits and fiber. Studies of ...

Over the past five decades, activist and photographer Claudia Andujar has worked with the Amazon’s Yanomami people to defend their native rights.

Yanomami Sound Stephen Vitiello is a sound artist based in New York City. He was commissioned by the Cartier Foundation in Paris to participate in the exhibition "Yanomami: ...

The Yanomami seem closer to the plains of Troy than to the African savanna. Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson said something similar in his preface to a 1992 popular edition of “Yanomamo: ...